DreamWorks Animation's Shrek prequel / spin-off Puss in Boots debuts in first place at the UK box office, banking £1.97m to push rival CG-animation Arthur Christmas down into second after the Aardman Animations effort topped the chart last week at the fourth time of asking. It's hardly a spectacular opening for Puss in Boots, although the same can be said of the week's other newcomers, with Garry Marshall's star-studded rom-com New Year's Eve only managing to amass £1.3m to take third and comedy sequel A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D pulling in just £183k down in eighth. The biggest success of the week was perhaps Mike Cahill's low-budget sci-fi drama Another Earth, which collected £90,950 from a limited release and debuting in the chart in tenth. Not bad for a $200,000 budget, and that's without the £1.3m it picked up from its North American run earlier in the year.
Turning to the familiar faces, Martin Scorsese's Hugo holds firm in fourth, while Happy Feet Two and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 both slip three places apiece to fifth and sixth respectively. My Week with Marilyn falls one spot to seventh, but the biggest fall of the week is reserved for the sci-fi horror 'pre-make' The Thing, which plunges four places to ninth in just its second week on screens.
Number one this time last year: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puss in Boots | £1,975,758 | 1 |
| 2 | Arthur Christmas | £1,429,923 | 5 |
| 3 | New Year's Eve | £1,285,552 | 1 |
| 4 | Hugo | £732,902 | 2 |
| 5 | Happy Feet Two | £724,126 | 2 |
| 6 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | £680,927 | 4 |
| 7 | My Week with Marilyn | £192,834 | 3 |
| 8 | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D | £183,798 | 1 |
| 9 | The Thing | £177,951 | 2 |
| 10 | Another Earth | £90,950 | 1 |
Incoming...
There's only two new films of note arriving in cinemas this coming Friday, giving cinemagoers a repeat of Christmas 2009 when Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel defeated Sherlock Holmes at the UK box office. However, this time out Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (cert. 12A) reportedly has the added attraction of new trailers for The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, so my money's on the Robert Downey Jr. / Jude Law sequel besting Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (cert. U) in the rematch.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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